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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life

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